we drove two hours for a gift shop -

just in case you're wondering what this post is about - it's about the 2 hour drive we took to visit a national historic site's gift shop.

i'm serious.

because - when you're obsessed with trains and your parents take you to go see some real live trains because they think you'd like it - well, think again, parents!
seeing trains up close like that is NOT what you want to spend your time doing - you just want to check out the goods in the gift shop where its nice and safe.



so take that parents!

next time you have a brilliant idea like that - just remember this road trip we took.
oh - and remember - next time - hurry and take some pictures before I freak out and won't pose for the camera. cause then all you'll end up with are pictures like the ones below. thank goodness mom got at least a couple of pictures so she could post on her blog about this whole experience.







and here's a shout-out to the nice park rangers who let us hang out in the gift shop for like a hour while dad watched the presentation. at least one of us learned something from this whole thing.